This page has a sizable list of free online tools and resources. You can narrow it down by topic (of course, sometimes these topics overlap):
Topic | Websites that contain |
Grammar | conjugation tables (or online conjugators), grammar summaries, explanations... |
Tests, quizzes | usually interactive, to check your knowledge of a particular area... |
Audio, podcasts | downloadable mp3 files, audio streams, sound clips - often with comprehension exercises... |
Video | interviews or short films - many of them with comprehension exercises... |
Pronunciation | guides, audio stuff, interactive presentations to learn and practice Spanish pronunciation... |
Textbook | online textbooks or supplements for print books, with additional activities... |
Fun and games | simpler, more entertaining exercises and activities, some specifically for children... |
Reading / vocabulary | stories, tales, news articles; vocabulary builders, word lists and simple dictionaries... |
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BBC - Languages - Learn Spanish
A quality learning resource. Interactive online courses with audio and video material and exercises; listening comprehension practice for different situations (complete with drills crucial for language learning :-)); vocabulary building using articles on current issues.
Spanish Proficiency Exercises
Extremely useful educational material - hundreds of brief video clips made with native speakers about dozens of topics (each chapter contains one simplified and several real-life monologues) for beginner, intermediate, advanced and superior level language learners.
With transcripts, vocabulary lists, sample sentences and chapter-related grammar.
Cultural Interviews with Latin American & Spanish Executives
laits.utexas.edu/
"A compilation of over 200 brief video clips in which Latin American and Spanish executives discuss cultural issues."
Complete with Spanish transcripts, English translation, topic-related vocabulary and cultural background. A great way to practice understanding live speech.
Nursing tasks in medical Spanish
laits.utexas.edu/
Several dozen medical-related live conversations with full transcripts, English translation and vocabulary.
Spanish grammar exercises
laits.utexas.edu/
Fill-in-the-blank questions on a wide range of grammatical subjects, with feedback indicating suggested answers. Nice, clean, easy to use.
Spanish Boat
Beginners' Spanish vocabulary by topic; grammar lessons and exercises (B1-C2); reading comprehension and completion exercises.
Espanoling
Various online exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners: vocabulary, verb tenses, prepositions, tricky areas (muy / mucho, por / para, ser / estar).
Surface Languages
surfacelanguages.com/
Excellent resource for vocabulary learning: tons of Spanish phrases and five hundred common Spanish words you can listen to and practice through flashcards; simple but fun games for colors, days, fruits, months, vegetables and numbers; and interactive crosswords.
Spanish Grammar Online: Advanced Spanish Book
bowdoin.edu/
Interactive grammar exercises and a complete online grammar book with "the essential points of Spanish grammar for intermediate / advanced students"
Notes from Spain - Notes in Spanish
Dozens of podcast-style informal conversations about Spain in Spanish [downloadable in mp3; file size: 4-20 Mb]. Advanced and intermediate level - not too difficult to understand and starting from podcast #35 transcripts can be bought for the recordings.
Nice for practicing comprehension and finding out about actual language use, culture, everyday life etc. The site also presents a "phrase of the week".
ssl4you - Spanish as a second language - Español Segunda Lengua para Todos
Podcast with various topics, from the paella to the siesta, birthday and gifts to the weekly shopping. The Spanish transcript is followed by the English translation.
Spanish Listening
Audio-video exercises for advanced Spanish language learners.
News in slow Spanish
Weekly podcast episodes discussing world news in an easy-to-understand style and a slow pace, by a native speaker; useful from lower intermediate level. Additional features for subscribers.
Spanish as a foreign language
xtec.cat/
Exercises for different verb tenses and moods - past, present, future tense; subjunctive, conditional and imperative mood.
Fun Trivia - Spanish trivia and quizzes
funtrivia.com/
Entertaining web quizzes ranging from idiomatic expressions and topic-specific vocabulary to Spanish abbreviations and false friends.
LangMedia: Spanish in Spain / Argentina / Ecuador / Mexico / Nicaragua
langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/
Practical information about getting around in Spain and Latin American countries - basic communications, culture and social life, necessities, transportation, shopping and services.
Most of the topics include related video clips of authentic Spanish-language conversation in everyday situations, with transcript and translation.
Viaje al pasado: los aztecas
Excellent, high quality educative material assisting in the understanding and proper use of Spanish past tenses (imperfecto, perfecto simple, perfecto impuesto).
The whole site is in Spanish, but the explanations (using Prehispanic cultural settings) are clearly spoken with complete transcripts available; related practice exercises; even two time travel adventure games located in Tenochtitlán, 1519.
El Camino de Santiago
A complex study resource, where you can immerse yourself in the experience of The Way of St. James; a virtual trip with the opportunity to understand and practice multiple grammatical aspects of the Spanish language through video explanations and dozens of interactive exercises. The site is in Spanish.
Rocket Languages
Lots of Spanish grammar, useful phrases and basic vocabulary with audio, plus a thorough pronunciations guide.
AT&T Natural Voices Text to Speech (TTS) SDK
wizzardsoftware.com/
An online text reader that offers a male and a female Latin American voice for reading Spanish-language sentences. Great quality compared to a lot of artificial-sounding text readers but only allows 255 characters as input.
The Sounds of Spanish - Web resources
Spanish pronunciation - quite scientific, but can be useful for learners of the language. The page offers a downloadable pdf-booklet containing all tables and figures of the print book titled "The Sounds of Spanish" and mp3-format files for each Spanish pronunciation example in those tables (about 150 short audio clips).
Wikibooks - Spanish
A nice beginner level online textbook offering grammar, basic vocabulary and conversations with audio samples.
The Internet Picture Dictionary: Spanish
A couple of hundreds of basic Spanish words categorized by topic. Several simple practice exercises to reinforce new vocabulary (Flashcards, Fill-in-the-blanks, Word Scramble, Stinky Spelling, Straight Recall). Nice for children.
Little Explorers - English-Spanish Picture Dictionary
More than a thousand dictionary entries illustrated with simple pictures.
HelloWorld Mini Picture Dictionary
helloworld.com.es/
You can learn basic vocabulary through pictures and audio here; the words are spoken in English as well, so it is also useful for Spanish-speaking English learners.
Hola Español - Diccionario
hello-world.com/
Hundreds of free games and activities to practice the language.
The Language Tutors
learnenglishspanishonline.com/
Spanish learning podcasts + detailed explanations of many grammatical and usage aspects for language learners (in the forum section); flashcard sets, quizzes, audio and video.
LyricsGaps
lyricsgaps.com/
Listen to the song in Spanish and try to fill in the gaps in the lyrics.
Pulpo y Calamar
Comic strips featuring an octopus and a squid conversing in Spanish, using a vocabulary suitable for beginners.
SpanishTown.ca
Interactive tests for practicing various tenses and irregular verbs. Two online crosswords.
Spanish grammar (and vocabulary) games
Lots of basic, intermediate and advanced level interactive multiple-choice tests in a very clean, easy-to-use interface.
Learn Spanish: A free online tutorial
studyspanish.com/
Pronunciation exercises, grammatical rules, verb conjugation. Tests at the end of each chapter.
Español-eXtra
Offers nice printable flashcards and wallcharts as well as a large number of online quizzes.
Destinos
learner.org/
A professionally-made soap opera style series for those who are just a little bit into Spanish yet. All 52 video episodes freely available after registration.
SpanishPrograms - Online Quiz Center
spanishprograms.com/
Online quiz center with a dozen simple quizzes on basic Spanish words and expressions useful in everyday situations.
Learn A Language.com
learnalanguage.com/
Audio flash cards for Spanish verbs, vocabulary topics and common phrases. Real-life conversations with English translation.
Spanish Flash Cards
Flash cards for Spanish adjectives, nouns (by category), verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions.
Spanish Audio Gazette - The Spanish Sound Archive
lab.chass.utoronto.ca/
Recorded samples from different Spanish dialects (Cuban, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican) with the corresponding text of each recording also available.
Noticias ONU
Here you can listen to the Spanish language news of the United Nations radio - clear pronunciation and full transcripts, great for practicing.
Audio Biblia
The New Testament with psalms and proverbs in Spanish, downloadable in mp3-format.
Spanish level tests
Interactive 30-question level tests, created according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages: from level A1 to B2. You can advance to the next level if you answer 70% correctly.
Spanish level test
cervantes.to/
Short online tests from beginner level to advanced, with explanations for wrong answers.
Delengua level test
delengua.es/
A 45-question interactive test to gauge your knowledge of the language.
Arriba! Comunicación y cultura
wps.prenhall.com/
Auxiliary material for a textbook: tests and audio.
Verbs in Spanish
Learn how to conjugate and use Spanish verbs in different tenses. Explanations, examples and exercises.
¡Es fácil!
Comprehensive online verb conjugation practice, fill-in-the-blanks style. (The only minor difficulty is, you need to know the names of Spanish verb tenses.) The site also has an English-Spanish verb dictionary (click Traducir verbo).
How to conjugate Spanish verbs
howtoconjugatespanishverbs.com/
Online tool offering both standard and reverse conjugation with translation.
Conjuguemos - Spanish verb conjugation practice
Fun activities related to various tenses and moods. Free registration suggested.
SchoLingua - Conjugation Trainer
scholingua.com/
Select the verb to practice (or ask for random verbs), choose a training mode, and start conjugating.
Multiple choice vocabulary test - Vocabulary Drills
saab.org/
Customizable tests for 2256 words and expressions. (Questions are called "problems" :-)). Unfortunately, it doesn't use accent marks for the Spanish words.
Todo-claro.com
Interactive vocabulary and grammar exercises (fill-in-the-blanks, matching) for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners; cultural and historical tests, situational practice.
English-Spanish Vocabulary Quizzes
A huge number of vocabulary tests in a broad range of topics, created by volunteers.
Quiz Tree - Spanish vocabulary - Educational quizzes
quiz-tree.com/
Nice little Flash-quizzes, each with 10-19 questions, all doubling as multiple-choice and drag-and-drop. Difficulty is beginner level, you can even listen to the correct answer before choosing it from the options.
Spanish Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson
personal.colby.edu/
Lots of exercises, interactive tests and video-based comprehension practice. Well-designed, with a little playfulness. Some sections only in Spanish.
Spanish Language Drills
20 quizzes with grammar questions. Not as interactive as you'd expect (no automatic evaluation of answers) but still practical and has useful notes for each grammatical issue.
Más arriba: Spanish Language Exercises
trentu.ca/
Many basic comprehension exercises with solutions; both questions and answers can be listened to as well. Good for children.
Gram@clicando
Hundreds of short interactive grammar exercises with a quite comprehensive coverage of Spanish grammar. The whole site is in Spanish, click Ejercicios for the tests.
Spanish Language Exercises - Self-Check Exercises
mld.ursinus.edu/
Interactive tests related to various grammar issues.
Ejercicios de gramática y ortografía
indiana.edu/
Grammar tests, not all of them interactive (some of them only shows the solution). Most of them purely Spanish.
Spaleon - Verb Conjugation Trainer
Interactive exercises for practicing verb conjugation, categorized by verb tense. Useful online service.
Paso a paso
6 different level textbooks - for each chapter in each book a "Self-Test" of 20 questions available online. The majority of them useful for practice even without the actual book.
Aprender Español
Lots of exercises for practicing Spanish grammar, verbs and vocabulary.
¿Sabías que...? Beginning Spanish
highered
Support website for a textbook. For each chapter it offers flashcards; a video (plus the same in audio); and 8-10 short interactive quizzes which may be useful even if you do not have the book itself.
Tecla
educacionyfp.gob.es/
An online magazine published a couple of times a month. All issues contain a beginner, intermediate and advanced level text with related exercises.
Cuentos con vocabulario, sonido y ejercicios interactivos
home.cc.umanitoba.ca/
Three texts for learners of Spanish, spoken in RealAudio as well, with exercises.
Spanish Proficiency Test
transparent.com/
A four-part online self-evaluation test on a language product site.
Spanish Tongue Twisters
As the title suggests, a huge list of funny Spanish sentences; English translation provided at the bottom of the page.
Translator Alligator
funbrain.com/
Practicing basic Spanish words in several simple quiz formats; has eight topics.
English-Spanish Dictionary Translation Games, Activities and Quiz
Simple quiz for learning and practicing basic vocabulary and expressions, categorized into 10 topics, each with Spanish to English and English to Spanish versions. Several quiz formats available for each topic, but the interface is a bit cluttered.